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The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
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indigenous birds as might be wished, as you justly observe: his
Latin is easy, elegant, and expressive, and very superior to
Kramer's.*
(* See his Elenchus vegerabilium et animalium per Austriam
inferiorem, etc.)

I am pleased to see that my description of the moose corresponds
so well with yours.

I am, etc.



Letter XXXIII
To Thomas Pennant, Esquire

Selborne, Nov. 26, 1770.

Dear Sir,

I was much pleased to see, among the collection of birds from
Gibraltar, some of those short-winged English summer birds of
passage, concerning whose departure we have made so much
inquiry. Now if these birds are found in Andalusia to migrate to
and from Barbary, it may easily be supposed that those that come
to us may migrate back to the continent, and spend their winters in
some of the warmer parts of Europe. This is certain, that many
soft-billed birds that come to Gibraltar appear there only in spring
and autumn, seeming to advance in pairs towards the northward,
for the sake of breeding during the summer months; and retiring in
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